The end of the BJP-PDP alliance did not come as a surprise, but its timing and swiftness were unimagined. It was widely welcomed at the national level, and helped the BJP retrieve much of its lost ground with its traditional vote base upset with the unilateral ceasefire and brazen pandering to the separatists by the PDP.

The Andhra battle for supremacy between the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and YSR Congress turned a full circle with the TDP, a partner in the NDA, pulling out and deciding to move a separate no-confidence motion against the central government for its alleged failure to grant special status for the state

It is likely that Andhra Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's threat to quit the NDA will turn out to be empty. For both parties can only lose by separating. But for the time being, it has raised the political temperature from Hyderabad to Delhi.

The cold war between Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Baijayant Panda, an MP from his party, the BJD, has become a matter of fanciful speculation in state politics. With just 18 months to go for elections, political circles are talking of the possibility of the emergence of new alignments and the potential of Jayant Panda, popular, articula...

VHP leader Pravin Togadia has been generally fond of hitting headlines and has always manipulated them to his advantage. But the latest one looks like a self-goal. With Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia and fellow traveler Hardik Patel also making common cause, Togadia lost the game even before playing the first innings.

If a former Finance Minister, that too from within the BJP, finds fault with the state of the economy, normally, it should be treated as a matter of concern. But when one remembers that Yashwant Sinha has been a routine critic of Narendra Modi and his radical political moves to transform India, it in fact creates hope, not despair.

The BJP has begun its preparation for the assembly polls in Gujarat, Himachal and Karnataka in right earnest though the dates for these state elections are yet to be declared by the Election Commission. The first two states are to elect a new assembly by the end of this year, whereas Karnataka is due to vote only in May next year. But the party can...

BJP President Amit Shah has set a target of 350 seats for the party in the 2019 general election. He is gearing up the cadre for this fantastic task in right earnest. One cannot predict an electoral outcome 21 months in advance unless one is a soothsayer. Still, there is enough reason to take the BJP target seriously.

The Congress looks like it is losing the plot in Gujarat and the BJP is further consolidating itself there. The blow the party has taken in Mahatma Gandhi's land is in many ways more severe than the one in Bihar, where it was only a junior partner in the Maha-gathbandhan with 27 members in the house of 243. But like in Bihar, the discomfiture in Gu...

The Doklam standoff is entirely of China's making. It happened at a time when diplomatic initiatives launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi achieved their main objective of the world community accepting Pakistan as a terror incubator and taking a united stand against Islamic terror.